Sitting in class with my professor so crass,

She says, "a normal distribution is the key,"

And something in that phrase strikes a chord in me.

I sit and contemplate, is normal our fate?

I dream of being an outlier, above or below

Just to mess with the status quo.

So I stand, face the board, and make my demand,

"Let's shift the distribution, let's add some skew."

And she looks at me like a heathen in a pew.

She's so devout, she kicks me out,

And as I leave, the class sighs as one, 

but I smile thinking, at least outliers have some fun!